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oth the institutional gesture of presenting a budget on the statutory date of September 15 and its feline rather than leonine style of presentation give a new face to President Javier Milei (which observers were not slow to link to his stunning electoral defeat in Buenos Aires Province earlier this month), but we will not know for certain unless the presidential vetoes overridden in Congress prove to be the last. And if those vetoes spurned last Wednesday were already an anachronism, what takes their place to give the government’s midterm electoral strategy any realistic target? Since an overall majority is mathematically impossible, with only 151 of the 329 parliamentary seats a
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